Green Guardians Rule Book

Game Setup
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D
B
C
1. The board is made up of interchangeable
hexagonal terrain tiles. Shuffle the tiles and place
them randomly, face down A .
2 PLAYER GAME
For 2 Guardians, select the following tiles (12 total):
3 Ocean, 3 Plains, 2 Forest, 2 Mountains, 2 Deserts.
3–4 PLAYER GAME
For 3–4 Guardians, use all tiles (19 total):
4 Ocean, 4 Plains, 4 Forest, 4 Mountains, 3 Deserts.
2. Sort the resource and corresponding disaster
cards by resource (such as Air, Animal, etc. that
have the same backing B ). Shuffle disaster
cards (3 each) in with each resource type.
3. Place resource and disaster cards face-down in
stockpiles on their allocated slots C . First time
playing? Take the resource sticker and paste it to
the resource card holders backs.
Leave space for discard piles in front of each
stockpile D .
4. Place breakthrough cards next to the resource
and disaster cards E .
5. Place the Tree of Knowledge close to the terrain
tiles F .
6. Set the waste and pollution tokens on the side
of the board, ready for use when created by the
Guardians' actions G .
7. Each Guardian takes your color-coded set of
Guardian token, workshop & lab tokens and
Research tokens H . Leftover sets are put away
and will not be needed for the game.
8. Each Guardian takes a Player Aid card I .
2 PLAYER GAME 3–4 PLAYER GAME
H
x 13 x 7
QUICKPLAY
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
PHASE 1: EXPLORE OR GATHER
This is the only required phase.
Choose either explore new tile or
gather at revieled tile.
PHASE 2: 2A OR 2B
Optional phase.
Choose either 2A (build/upgrade) or
2B (produce/research)
PHASE 3: ASSIGN WASTE & POLLUTION
If an action in Phase 2 is chosen,
then phase 3 is triggered.
PHASE 4: LEARN & CLEAN
Optional phase.
Learn through invest/Tree of Knowledge or
clean waste/pollution
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WIND
POWER
HOLLISTIC
DESIGN
RECYCLING
WASTE
COLLECTION
POTABLE
REUSE
TREATMENT
BIO
DIVERSITY
ECOLOGY
BIO
DEGENERATION
IRRIGATION
SANITATION
FOOD
SECURITY
AGRONOMY
F
SOLAR
POWER
TOXYCOLOGY
PHOTO
SYNTHESIS
DISEASE
RESISTANCE
SYMBIOSIS
E
G
x 25 x 25
CLIMATOLOGY
PARKS &
RECREATION
HYDROLOGY
STABILIZATION
ANIMAL WATER PLANT AIR EARTH
TOURISM
HYDRO
POWER
6 7